Principal Software Engineer, Delivery Platform

Snap Inc.

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Work type
On-site
Location
Santa Monica, CA
Salary
$276,000–$414,000 / yr
Posted
1 day ago
Nearby
99+ roles within 25 mi

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This role $345k
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About Snap Inc.

Snap Inc. is a technology and camera company, best known for Snapchat, offering visual communication, augmented reality, and advertising products.

Snap Inc. currently has 55 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $209,000–$313,000 across 39 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Principal Software Engineer, Delivery Platform

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As a Principal Software Engineer on the Delivery Platform team at Snap, you will lead the development of next-generation advertising formats and backend infrastructure to enhance advertiser value. Your role involves end-to-end project management from ideation through optimization, collaborating with cross-functional teams to define requirements and deliver scalable solutions for Snap’s performance advertising suite. You’ll provide technical guidance that impacts company-wide initiatives and require expertise in ads domain, large-scale system operations, and experience with highly-available systems at significant scale. Preferred candidates have a proven track record of delivering complex projects in attribution and measurement, alongside strong skills in relevant technologies and tools used within the Snap ecosystem.

Skills

Python Go Kubernetes Docker AWS CI/CD PostgreSQL Redis GraphQL React JavaScript Node.js MongoDB Cassandra Hadoop Spark Kafka Prometheus Grafana

What you'll do

  • Build next-generation ads formats and backend infrastructure for increased advertiser value.
  • Innovate, experiment, analyze, and optimize new ad products and infrastructure ideas end-to-end.
  • Provide technical direction that influences the entire company's engineering strategy.
  • Evaluate product requirements and trade-offs to deliver solutions for Snap’s performance advertising suite.
  • Collaborate across teams to understand complex needs and deliver scalable technical solutions.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics or equivalent experience.
  • Proven ability to deliver large-scale projects in attribution and measurement.
  • Experience with highly-available systems operating at significant scale.
  • Strong expertise in the ads domain and interest in advertising technologies.
  • Ability to provide technical direction influencing the entire company.

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